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red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria
Abstract. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List is the most useful database of species that are at risk of extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of objective criteria and is now widely adopted. The R package red – IUCN Redlisting Tools - performs a number of spatia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20530 |
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description | Abstract. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List is the most useful database of species that are at risk of extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of objective criteria and is now widely adopted. The R package red – IUCN Redlisting Tools - performs a number of spatial analyses based on either observed occurrences or estimated ranges. Functions include calculating Extent of Occurrence (EOO), Area of Occupancy (AOO), mapping species ranges, species distribution modelling using climate and land cover and calculating the Red List Index for groups of species. The package allows the calculation of confidence limits for all measures. Spatial data of species occurrences, environmental or land cover variables can be either given by the user or automatically extracted from several online databases. It outputs geographical range, elevation and country values, maps in several formats and vectorial data for visualization in Google Earth. Several examples are shown demonstrating the usefulness of the different methods. The red package constitutes an open platform for further development of new tools to facilitate red list assessments. |
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spelling | pubmed-56650062017-11-03 red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria Cardoso, Pedro Biodivers Data J R Package Abstract. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List is the most useful database of species that are at risk of extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of objective criteria and is now widely adopted. The R package red – IUCN Redlisting Tools - performs a number of spatial analyses based on either observed occurrences or estimated ranges. Functions include calculating Extent of Occurrence (EOO), Area of Occupancy (AOO), mapping species ranges, species distribution modelling using climate and land cover and calculating the Red List Index for groups of species. The package allows the calculation of confidence limits for all measures. Spatial data of species occurrences, environmental or land cover variables can be either given by the user or automatically extracted from several online databases. It outputs geographical range, elevation and country values, maps in several formats and vectorial data for visualization in Google Earth. Several examples are shown demonstrating the usefulness of the different methods. The red package constitutes an open platform for further development of new tools to facilitate red list assessments. Pensoft Publishers 2017-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5665006/ /pubmed/29104439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20530 Text en Pedro Cardoso http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | R Package Cardoso, Pedro red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title | red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title_full | red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title_fullStr | red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title_full_unstemmed | red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title_short | red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria |
title_sort | red - an r package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the iucn criteria |
topic | R Package |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20530 |
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